Kieran Healy is an Irish sociologist, a professor of sociology at Duke University,Duke sociology people , retrieved 2013-01-20. a member of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke,KIE Faculty & Senior Fellows , retrieved 2013-01-20. and a regular visitor to the Research School in Social Science (RSSS) at the Australian National University.Philosophers at RSSS in 2011, retrieved 2013-01-20. He earned his PhD in sociology from Princeton University, having begun his studies at University College Cork, in Ireland. His research interests include the social basis of self-interest and altruism, the organization of exchange in human goods (like blood, organs, eggs and genetic material), and the role of volunteering in the open source software movement. In 2002, he received the American Sociological Association's Dissertation Award for "Exchange in Blood and Organs."Kieran Healy Award Statement, American Sociological Association, retrieved 2013-01-21.
Healy was involved in debating while at UCC and won the Irish Times National Debating competition in 1993. He was also a member of the UCC Philosophical Society.
He is a member of the Crooked TimberThe Decline and Fall of the Typing Wife, Dwight Garner, New York Times, August 9, 2007. and orgtheory.net group blogs.
Selected publications Altruism as an organizational problem: The case of organ procurement American Sociological Review , 69:387-404, 2004, PDF Digital technology and cultural goods Journal of Political Philosophy, 10(4):478-500, 2002, PDF Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. University of Chicago Press (Chicago, 2006). Description.Grim Harvest (review of Last Best Gifts, Virginia Postrel, New York Times, January 28, 2007. Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction. Princeton University Press (2018) Description. Fuck Nuance Sociological Theory, 35(2):118-127, 2017, PDF
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External links Kieran Healy's website OrgTheory group blog